User blog comment:Anobi/If I made a DMC game.../@comment-775152-20120518180021/@comment-4720688-20120519020140

I made it all the way through Human mode without dying once, which is one of my greatest gaming achievments. (Ha. Easy mode. But still... >_>;;)

The coyote spirit (maybe henceforth known as the "familiar"?) could smell devils maybe. The stronger the demon, the stronger the scent. (Maybe there could be an eviler=stinkier factor too. For example, Sparda himself would smell fairly pleasant, and Python, as a non-malevolent but not precisely good, would smell tolerable, but Mundus would be garbage-dump-in-a-guys'-locker-room nosebleedingly bad.) Blood of Sparda would reek to the heavens (reek=/=stink for this purpose), so the familiar could smell Dante from miles away, but since Django doesn't know who/what he is and his devil blood is dormant, the familiar can't tell he's there.

This could also mean the familiar "smells a rat" with the judge, since His Honor is drawing on demonic power.